Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-29
SMOKING.
A Brief but Exhaustive Argument
Against the Habit.
'Frnn, the Brooklyn Ea0le.

From, the Brooklyn Eagle.
An English journal recently offered g
prize for the beat argument against smok.
ing. Following is the article for which
the prize was awarded:
Its unphysiOlogical, because no animal
in a state OF nature uses it and the frs
time q man smokes he is usually violently
upset by it. When person eats a new
kind of fruit for the first time he may moi
like it, but it does not make him i'll, as
such fruit is a food. But tobacco, being
a poison, nearly always causes an upset
to the system. 1t Is only by continued
use that man can use it without being
made Immediately ill; he Is made ulti-
mately diseased by its use.
1t is expensive, because there is no need
I for it; it is not even luxury that helps
US to spend our supernuous cash harm.
lessly, because IL causes more loss and
injury than il does good. In England we
spend at least 9l2, 000, 900 year on to.
bacco alone; what with pipes, matches,
cigar holders, cigarette tubes, cigarette
machines, ETC., we do not spend short OF
EGO, 100000.
1t is dirty habit. What smells worse
than the breath OF a smoker, than his to.
bacco soaked clothes and his rank pipe
Then the ashes from pipes, cigars ana
cigarettes fall on clothes, carpets, table
cloths, etc., and dirty or dis6gure them.
Smoking blackens the teeth and IL pipe
is smoked the teeth that hold 1t are worn
away and so we spoil natural adorn-
ment-the teeth.
1t is selfish, in that the person only who
uses it gets pleasure from it and that
often at the expense Of others. Smokers
poison the air common TO all by the fumes
they emit. The seltshness OF the smoker
fa MI s1NI md saE no
husband pre- erring his pipe to his wife or
sweetheart. 1t is disease producing. 1t
stops growth and causes ill-developed
persons if used before gro " tn has stopped
In adults IL first blunts the sense OF taste,
smell and sight and, Indirectly, the hear
ing and touch. 1t always produces more
or less sore throat and often, in conse-
quence, the worst kind OF deafness-viz. {:
throat deafness. When absorbed into the
system 1t causes palpitation and irregu-
lar action OF the heart and has pressing
influence on it. ltdelays digestion, causes
nervousness. trembling OF hands, inde-
cislon, loss OF energy and OF will power.
with lowness OF spirits. 1t deadens
thought and makes man dull and list
less instead OF being intelligent and ac-
tive. 1t causes loss Of appetite, helps on
cancer OF the stomach and 10 the active
cause OF most cases of cancer seen on the
lower up, WnlCu lb rarely seen except
among smokers. 1t also lessons the vi
tally and wounds heal less rapidly among
smokers thar among non-smokers. 1t
wastes time and energy. 1t wastes en-
ergy as 1t depresses the vital powers and
uses up itself, life and power that should
be USED for helping on mankind. 1t leads
To drinking. Smoking always causes a
dryness OF the throat and the saliva eject.
ed il fluid lost TO the system; TO relieve
both these conditions fluids are taken.
AS tobacco is a nervlne depressant alcO-
hol is often used to get rid OF this depressed
feeling. statistics Of temperance friendly
societies show That smokers break away
from their pledge IN greater numbers than
non-smokers do.
1t leads to loss OF property, goods and
lives by the fires which originate by light
ed ashes from pipes, by lighted cigar ends
or matches used by smokers. The loss in
this country by fire traceable 10 smoking
Is very large.